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Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research

LexBlog IP

Under typical Phase 1 contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD), such as the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), default ownership of domestic and international intellectual property rights belong to the Contractor. The inventor of the invention and the corresponding contract number that the agreement was conceived under. important;}}.

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The IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal Year in Review 2023

The IPKat

Another source of confusion is the divergent approaches of the UK courts and the EPO with respect to the test for the evidence standard in sufficiency and inventive step analysis. Plausibility demystified - a review of EPO case law before G 2/21 G 2/21: Is the technical effect embodied by the invention as originally disclosed?

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Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The parties are currently engaged in supplemental expert discovery on Hospira and Pfizer’s on-sale bar and public use defenses, and the court has resolved two discovery disputes this year stemming from these issues. Non-Confidential Brief for Plaintiff-Appellant at 25, 35.) 9,643,997, which is directed to protein purification.